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KHMD

This Is ALL About Us The Place where we make everything clear.

Simply Put

We're a group of students and Alumni who embrace the Hacker culture and love what we do. We started out as a small group and are now seeing our numbers increase, and would like to see the whole school see what this feels like.

What we really do

Build things. When we're not doing that, we're probably helping someone else build things. When we're not helping people build things, we're probably thinking about what we want to build next. Rest of the time we're just sleeping.

What's different this year?

Focus
That's the Change.

The Deeper Message

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Mark Zuckerberg and many more, all, innovators from the digital age, changed our lives for the better. All of these people have endorsed the hacker culture many times over. They had that drive in them to work on something they thought was missing in this world and truly believed in their work.

Going back in time, the 70’s was considered a golden age for free thinking, technological progress and an artistic blend in the silicon valley.

“The people who invented the twenty-first century were hippies from the west coast like Steve Jobs, because they saw differently.” Two decades later, the Free Software Foundation or more popularly the Open Source movement changed the way the world looked at software. In the early 21st century, a fresh string of companies based on the internet strived to deliver information to the masses and keep everyone connected.

Only one thing is common between all of these. These were all startups. No big company has ever been able to shape ideology the way startups have.

Here's a quick timeline:

  • Origin of the word "Hacker"

    The word finds it's origin at MIT and hobbyists community is growing in the Silicon valley due insurgence of technology companies in the area.

  • Apple II

    The world's first successful personal computer is built in a garage.

  • Dawn of Microsoft

    MS-DOS is released and soon becomes the industry standard for personal computers.

  • Macintosh

    Apple releases it's famous Macintosh while making fun of George Orwell's book "1984". The Macintosh turns out to be the first successful computer with a GUI after the Lisa failure.

  • GNU/Linux

    Richard Stallman revolutionizes the software industry with his ideals of Free Software. Linus Torvalds as a 22 year old creates the first major alternative for UNIX with his Linux kernel.

  • Social Networking

    Facebook is in a dorm room and blows away mySpace and Friendster. Others like Twitter, Whatsapp, LinkedIn follow suit in the next few years.

  • India in 2015

    Still waiting for the next big thing to come from India. Though there are many successful startups, very few are original with their ideas to be able to compete globally.

But why is all this here?

Some of us at KHMD feel that what the Silicon Valley was in terms in innovation in the 70’s is what India is right now (or at least what it will be). Over the past few years, India has turned out to be the startup centre of the world. We’re sure that India will soon be the place to be in terms of technological innovation. The startup culture today is turning out to be a true embodiment of the late 70’s hacker culture. But we believe that this culture is more than just about skills.

It’s a complete change in mindset that we’re looking at. A mindset that looks at a problem and solves it without being a “me too” solution. And we feel proud to say the the epicentre of all this is Bengaluru.

Come witness a small part of this change at Interface 2015.

This Is KHMD.

And this is what we stand for -

#LetHackersMakersDesignersUnite